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30 July 2021 Stepan Kutorga (1805-1861) was a Russian zoologist, palaeontologist, mineralogist, geologist and a professor of St Petersburg Imperial University (since 1837).

28 July 2021 Recently, the game of chess has become extremely popular not only among professional and amateur players, but also among ordinary people. A 2020 miniseries — ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ — was an unprecedented success for Netflix. Officially the plot is based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same ...